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Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today... - Carol Platt Liebau: Cultural Condescension Once Again From Obama · Conduit Place

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Speaker 1: This is Carol Platt-Liebel for townhall.com. Barack Obama was back
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Speaker 1: on the campaign trail in the run-up to the election.
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Speaker 1: And as he so often does before an adoring crowd,
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Speaker 1: he indulged his penchant for mockery. Obama ridiculed President Trump's
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Speaker 1: White House renovations, joking that they looked like Saddam Hussein
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Speaker 1: opened a cheesecake factory. The crowd roared. But perhaps Obama
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Speaker 1: revealed more about himself than about the president. To target Trump,
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Speaker 1: he made regular Americans the butt of the joke, people
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Speaker 1: who happily patronized the Cheesecake Factory on a night out.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the relatives of the bitter clingers Obama famously belittled
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Speaker 1: back in 2008. The remark is revealing of today's Democratic Party,
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Speaker 1: which once proudly called itself the party of the working person.
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Speaker 1: Bereft of any new or exciting ideas, too many of
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Speaker 1: its leaders now seem to offer little more than cultural
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Speaker 1: condescension and sneering elitism.